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Show ! I Antrim. I I v0I V snd siffnir is reported from Si .. nv.jic't!, resulting in the loss of hi 0 !iv.. It appear that, as a result j J )ir ?ITMt storm and rain of Feb. 26. Hn.lsli'i occurred on the following- II Vht at th" ,imP works, the house in I '"hi-h'th" rnjtaker. James Butler, his i liL and hil.J resided, being ov.r- I h.dm"l- T-.ns of debris crashed !" ,rruch the roof, carrying down the loft ,rv, of the unfortunate Inmates, who killed on the ppot. In ivlfast, on the evening of March I i v,uvt of his friends entertained I pr 'v ish:1-v- lhe unsuccessful land re- I ;,;..', .tndidate in South Antrim, to a I 'mi,;:nv.-t!tary banquet, and also made . j,:,,', a ,v s ntation of silver plate, in ii v','. I'M (',-istlo restaurant, under thf ' I of Mr. Hugh Mack, M. P. irs'th-r:: M. Keever has died at Lar-rviiK'i-''. TJshiiT-n, at the age of 101 s. .. ased was formerly a sorv-J,'t sorv-J,'t in ;!; i 'on vent of the Sacred Heart. ,,- h.td h-eii 1'Iind for the past twenty Vp;. She had a wonderful memory, j,,,, i'..iiid relate many interesting sto- j if vy i:-. John Macau lay, pastor of M c. untthnv's church. Helfast. I II t.vnt-'d Lis eolden jubilee a short time f ePi. T!i' priests of the diocese ten- d-T'd liim a banquet in the Linen Hall II li.-.:-!. mid presented him vith an il- II luniiiiated address. : i Cork. : un F!. -1 the remains of the late I Mr. Patrick Fehily were removed from I his n-sider.ee. The Arcade, Balineen, for I; interment. The deceased gentleman : was the i.p'jirietr.-r of a very extensive li imsin- ss establishment in l?allineen. and I lifler.c-il to n old and respected fam- tl ily .His funeral was a very large one, I aii.i eotistituted a tribute to the high j- r?;ei in in which the deceased was held. j T!ie hnard of trade inquiry into the . loss of the London sailing ship Helga, corn Iai-, wrecked near Ballycoiton, on .hit:. 21'. concluded on March 10. The court h-Id that t'aptain Moreton Fer-Rtis-'n was solely accountable for the i loss ef the ship; but in consideration of ;- his , X' eHeiit character and record, they I uouM iMt deal with his certificate, but F' vci'e!y iej.iimand.:d hini. ; Down. At the meeting of the Xewry Urban i J counri:. on March 10, Mr. Henry Lough -' ran. .1. 1. -hairman) presiding, a res-- Jiuti-n K-as read from the corporation of Waterford. urging upon Mr. Thomas ; S'Xt'in. as a patriotic duty, to once ;: ni-M-e ! pt responsibilities of an Irish representative in parliament and assist in the statesmanlike work that it now i se-med possible to achieve for Ireland. On the motion of Mr. Rice, seconded - by Mr. H;nt ratty, the resolution was uraiiirciously adoted by the Xewry o'unei'. r-i Deny, j A t-Ail accident occurred near Quig- i ly's Point on March 3, resulting in the d-ath of a farmer named Hugh Me-rtronrty. Me-rtronrty. aged 20. who belonged near JV.viil-. McGroarty had purchased a 1: is- in Quigley's Point, and was riding homo in the afternoon, and had got but shun distance when -he was violently thrown to the ground, receiving injuries i from which he died. : The civic- council of Derry has ac- g f.'pted the jannon offered by Mr. Car- i rifcie to build a, lihrary for the people h of the town. The site of the new build- is on the Diamond. I Th funeral of the late Mr. Edward I r- J- Honaghy, the Square, Maghera-Wt. Maghera-Wt. took place on March 8 to Money- more cemetery, and was very numerously numer-ously attended. Deceased was aged 23 ,rt. In the famous college of the I .''suits at Hongowes Wood he made his j f;;r1ifc. His death was deeply regret- "n Mar, h 9, in St. Column's hall, Der-rv- ititeret-ting entertainment took !' 'n the form of an Irish Night or- I pa-,iZ'-'I oy the Gaelic league branches I of the city. The attendance was fairly I n,K there was room for more. I present followed the programme I ;th tmit-h interest, and were delighted i i;h the itish songs, duets, quartettes 5! '1 Irish reels and jigs. The n.oding continues in the My roe : f-stiirr. i.jmavady. Though the depth ' '' water in th" count rj- is not so great. ' !!'" rise of the tides thousands of Hr.rcs ,.nVpred to the depth of ptal fi-et. Xo attempt has so far ma le to repair the breaches in the ; ?'a ; n.hiMikment. A meeting was held t5'" -Mxander hall. Limavady. on h !'. in order to raise funds to al-v:, al-v:, ;e the distress among the laboring r. '.'f- '-onsequent upon the Hooding. ""r.ty-e-sht families are suffering. Sir - ' Lecky presided, and the at- i ': .atuv. included He v. Canon Fordo, M. .Macrory. Samuel Martin. John ; irr:s.r,!. James Dunn Kallykelly), and : : J'rt' ! i Hamilton. It was decided to open si:hs. ! iption list, and a good sum was! f '' s' Ti!" ''"I- A resolution was passed ; ai'-m.-ralize the Irish sex-iety to con-'"''' con-'"''' v, the assistance of the people i'iip..-.,v!!y h"melt'ss. Hi o'hs ':aig of Knockati has been ; r la:r. , a, a ,.,,,.( Jn J-)Ujlsjven with ! '; ;'!':'v discharging loaded firearms! I, -"'"e'skcy, didng him grievous " '-' harm, so as to endanger his life. j,'1" ,:'.,"'"d nian, McCloskey, made a t;i tiner that on going to ' ''.X. ,":u'r hp saw a number of men I i 'V : ;,n n1' barrel, as a mark of re-'''"- hi the marriage of John B. Mul- j she.ts were also fired. Afterward : .' ' ndatii. Craig, fired two or three v'u- "l, "f hii-h passed close to the , , f 'i'ness told Craig not '; ' ;gain. Half an hour later , ;'r'd another shot, which struck i ! the head, and he feu sense-1 sense-1 h i' 'a,'5in found a wound two I". '' 1 !,:,:' inches in diameter penetrat-yzr','h' penetrat-yzr','h' btne ,,n the right side of head. The wound was v IT .hy 9 Punshot. The man's life h'-iV "f "'Wr except some symp-i; symp-i; Is, " '''' Tvr Iu'(1- The magistrates ro-: ro-: li,,1- 'u'1 !1dant for trial, accepting "" Mdf in 04,3 anj w0 sureties . ' , ;.,-h. a Dublin. i fr,rr.' ' ,l,1C!"ation statistics for Ireland) '"- ' :""'v that 40.401. or 9.1 per 1.000 ' ;; illation, left the country dur- J, j.""' ,,r. Of these, IS. 893 were -a. if. ,,, , ir,n)j femal?s- These were lo.vV 1 ':!,:"nst the provinces as fol-. fol-. I- i!:ster. 3.GM; Munster, 15.872; , ..;'r" :(;:'i":': and Connaught, 11.533. Of 5 t'ie ;f llum,'er. 34.SO0 were between t'o v'. "f v iini 35 years; 14. 235 of R:ir! .'-:',"(" were described as laborers, '"' 'lomestic servants. T'v. -; r-i,;J..,'':'!;"li;i'ists of Crumlin and thoi.'-"!,, arr- taking steps, to organize 'i'm'f'e vri,'Ts' nd to have in that por-v'fcn por-v'fcn -N""t'h Dublin as strong and as ' tranches of the United Irish Mr "-,:.',s Hl'p in any Part of Ireland, c " N.'l;v- league organizer, visited rail"'"1 9,1,1 'londalkln March 12 and suit 1"H'iinR nationalists. The re-"'th re-"'th t llUprviews proves that from '' Wni'i.- f',"u;a ,he spirit of nationality " ds brightly today in Xorth Dub-thc. Dub-thc. '' vhf-" Mr- Clancy first wrested I'lse-.tation from the tories. ' linThVirh shp,iff of the city of Dub-.T0hn Dub-.T0hn 'lllam Fanagan. has appointed turn .avna&h. the solicitor, to be re- Thrre arp now twelve small'x pa- vi -horn are pro- thecom-om rre(i 0n Manh 5' at ! Franco "vU B 'Ser.s, Roubaix. ' V ncenh t M,lry Donn (Sister . St. lig"ous f the 4tb year of her re-s re-s d ,SeSS'0,"' She was young-ChrifL01 young-ChrifL01 th late Thomas and , nn na Donegan of Palmerstown. I - i Leitrim. i March'q ndon ho"se of commons on i i lans!er to a" inquiry, the Mr O'nofi for IrelMd informed der the 5rJ:he holdinS Purchased un-July un-July ! lfS f an agreement dated mercr-an t StUart Gil!mor. chase o? whfeh rmahair' for the Pur" thirtlen I thC land commissi. was imrteen acres, one rod and twentv 1 fofl-r, The a ance wasS; lv,l i? , Purcha-se of the fee simple of lhe rieht,nif" M- 'D-i asked did for V hi f Iand was sufficient security th . h' m- "hethe- he was aware that Sadhsofnfhhad been b0U8ht the ! Giflrnor v 6 occuPVinS villagers by Hmon Xo answer was given to th I Kildare. ' cu?redMaoCh f Serious a0cident' oc-'of oc-'of thf A a 32ckey named J- Vogles, of the Curragh, at present in the employ em-ploy of Mr.' Sydney Ayres of Dublin ogles was riding Jn the neighborhood of the North Circular road when his horse was frightened by a motor car 1 became uncontrollable, dashing ai ? thl streets at top speed On Wed an! ?T,,and RW the hrse stum" h is head fi6S W'3S thrWn heavily on rn I w ile was immediately attended at-tended by Dr. Hamilton of Stephen's deS, re"?ained unconscious'for a stone or,a?,,e tlme' Sergeant Orim-wh Orim-wh h "il procured the ambulance in i Ctrl', ,!be IT3," Was amoved to Jervis ! consirier.?ltaA1, wh.ere his lnjurie ere .detailed S SeriUS that h was j James McDonaghT Kusserlin, near rr-nV Se' ,Was rund drowned in the j Otand canal, near Milltown, March 6. j Hugh MeBride, son of Mr. Joseph Mc-i-nde. national school teacher. Bally-. ?T' -.?U,S,tac?' died in Mercer's hospital. hos-pital. Dublin, March 2. aged 13 years. The interment was made in Glasnevin cemetery. Mr. John A. Copeland died at Ballv-more Ballv-more Eustace woolen mills' Feb. 22, I aged 6S years, deeply mourned. The , funeral to the Catholic cemetery was numerously attended. Monaghan. A shocking tragedy occurred on March 7 at Cornafahy, a townland in the district of Smithborough, where a man named Thomas Kiera-is was shot through the heart. Two others, James j Connolly and John McMahon, were shot, the former in the head and the other in the shoulder. Connolly and McMahon are in a serious condition. A man named Moorehead has been arrested ar-rested on his own confession, and states that he fired, the gun for the purpose of frightening the men. After I the occurrence he sent for a doctor immediately and helped to carry Kie-rams Kie-rams into his house. The affair "is said to have arisen out of a squabble at Moorehead's house. Moorehead has been arrested and held on the coroner's warrant. Mr. Justice Holmes and Mr. Justice Wright arrived in Monaghan on March 4 and were met by the high sheriff, Mr. A. Moutray, and driven under an escort es-cort of mounted police to their lodgings. lodg-ings. On Thursday Mr. Justice Holmes, accompanied by the high sheriff, sat in the crown court of the county court house. Monaghan, and commenced the business of the assizes. The grand .1ury having been sworn, the judge informed in-formed them that there was no crown business, and congratulated them on the peaceful state of the county. The high sheriff then presented him with a pair of white gloves. s On Feb. 27 the lord lieutenant, with Countess of Dudley and the viceregal party, arrived by special train in Monaghan Mon-aghan from Portrush. to open the Agricultural Ag-ricultural college established in the town for the sons of County Monaghan farmers by the Rev. Brother J. P. Hig-gins. Hig-gins. principal of the Christian Broth-I Broth-I ers in this center. The viceregal party drove to Rossmore castle, the residence J of Lord Rossmore. whose guests they were during the stay in Monaghan. On I Saturday morning their excellencies were presented with three addresses in ; Rossmore castle. I On Feb. 15 Mr. J.V. Gardiner. X. T., j Clontibret. proceeded to lav poison for ! rats. His little child, aged IS months, i followed him. When he turned his back the child put his hand in the poison and put the hand into its mouth. The little one then went into the house, and from the indications Its act was apparent, and .the mother rubbed and cleaned the mouth. The child showed no symptoms until later ; in the day, when its body became swol-j swol-j len and it died in a short time. i At Clones, on March 5. John Foe. sr., was charged with stabbing Tnomas j McAviney. Both parties live in CJones, and are butchers, accused being the i father-in-law of McAviney. Fee was remanded, but was released on bail. Sligo. The marriage is announced on Fpb. 23, at the "Star of the Sea" church, Knocknarea, by the Rev. Dr. O'Loan of Robert, youngest son of the late John Daly, merchant, to Maria, only I daughter of the late Patrick Harte, Carrowerin. The happy couple left for Dublin soon after the wedding ceremony cere-mony on their honeymoon. - On the evening of Feb. 19, at Lug-melton, Lug-melton, near Drumkeeran, Thomas Cullen, an old man over 70 years of age, met with a fatal accident. Mr. M. Creighton, Chapel street, Sligo. coach builder, died suddenly March II. The funeral took place on Friday after solemn requiem services j were held in the cathedral. At the Sligo assizes, on March 12, in the record court, before Mr. Justice Barton, was heard the appeal of the Rev. James Spellman, Anthony Calvey, Hugh O'Hara and John McXulty. members of the Kilmactigue branch of the United Irish League, against the decision of the county court judge, who awarded Edward Perdue damage amounting to 19 19s for alleged conspiracy. con-spiracy. The Judge confirmed the former for-mer verdict against Father Spellman and the others and imposed a further sum of 7 as costs. The spring assizes for the county were opened in Sligo on March 9. There were only two cases on the calendar. Tipperary. The assizes for the south riding of Tiprerary were opened in the county court. Clonmel, on March 7. Michael Slttery, a young man, was charged -with having on Dec. 4 feloniously fel-oniously and with malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Michael Carroll. Car-roll. , Mr. Battersby tendered a plea of guilty of roansalughter. which was accepted ac-cepted by the crown and the prisoner was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. During a United Irish League meeting meet-ing on March S, at Barnane. near Tern-plemore, Tern-plemore, references were made to the holder of large, grazing trr .s. who is bovcotted. The police attempted to disperse the meeting by baton charges. During the melee District Inspector White and several men under his charge were seriously injured. Many civilians had to be surgically treated. Wexford. On the morning of Feb. 2S as Margaret Mar-garet Sunderland was walking along the banks of the river Annagora, which flows through the low land between j Ballycanew and Courtown, she was ; startled at a terrible spectacle. Under-j Under-j neath the bough of a tree, at a point near Bolaney. she recognized the dead body of a neighboring farmer, and j Moating in close proximity was the ; dead body of another farmer. The cause of their death is being investigated. investi-gated. Waterford. At the meeting of he Dungarvan Urban Ur-ban district Vouncil on March 9 Mr. Thomas O'Connor (chairman) presiding, presid-ing, the clerk read the resolution recently re-cently passed by the Waterford corporation cor-poration requesting Mr. John E. Redmond, Red-mond, chairman of the Irish parliamentary parlia-mentary party, to provide a place for Mr. Thomas Sexton in the ranks of the j party, as the time was now opportune ! for every friend of the country to take ! his place in the country's service, and . more particularly was it desirable, that I a gentleman of Mr. Sexton's recognized 1 ability should be included in the ranks of the party now, when the work to j Which he had devoted the hpst of his ' life was approaching consummation. The resolution was unanimously adopted. Patrick Joseph Commins, son of Patrick Pat-rick Kent Commins of the Quay, Waterford, Wat-erford, died at sea on Nov. 15. aged 33 years, deeply mourned by his family and friends. Mr. David Canty of Johnstown, Waterford Wat-erford City, died March 5. For some years he held a seat at the board of th-a civic council. His demise was deeply mourned. Right Rev. Dr. Sheehan, bishop of Waterford and Lismore, who was in Rome during Pope Leo XIII.'s jubilee celebration this month, had an interview inter-view with the pontiff and gave as Peter's Pe-ter's pence offering $2,500. On March 1, in the Gaelic field, Shan-don, Shan-don, Dungarvan, the final of the County Coun-ty Waterford football championship was played, the competing teams being Lismore and Kilrossenty. Lismore won by one goal, 4 points to 0. Cavan. Michael Corry of Ballyconnell died on March 6 at the age of 82 years. He was a Justice of the peace and the chairman of the rural district council of Bawnboy. He was formerly a National Na-tional teacher. At the spring assizes, which were opened at Cavan on the 5th ult., Matthew Mat-thew Gillick was tried for killing Henry Owens of Corrtlnner, Virginia, last November. Defendant was found not guilty and was discharged. Mrs. Bridget Farrelly died Feb. 27 at her residence, The Gates, Blough- l ballybeg, at the age of 110 years. Deceased De-ceased was in the best of health until a month before her demise. Her in-J tellect was unimpaired until the last, and she spoke the native Irish language lan-guage fluently. She was born some time before the sanguinary conflict at Petersville. in the parish of Moynalty. between the Peep o' the Day boys and the Defenders in 1793, and had a recollection recol-lection of some of the incidents of 1798. She sang Irish songs so well that her home was often visited by persons anxious to obtain a proper pronunciation pronuncia-tion of certain words. The large number num-ber who accompanied her remains to Kelly's church burying place bore testimony tes-timony to the esteem in which she was held. Donegal. There are five rural banks working on the co-operative credit system in Inishowen, one each at Malin, Ardmalin and the electoral divisions of Straid, Dunaff and Gleneely. These banks are finding a. useful scopo of activity, especially es-pecially in helping the farmer to make improvements on his holdings, to purchase pur-chase stock and such like. Monday, March 9, was the first occasion oc-casion on which trains carrying passengers pas-sengers and goods ran on the new Iet-terkenny Iet-terkenny to Burtonport railway. This is the third extension in County Donegal Done-gal promoted by the government in recent years. The other two are the Stranorlar to Glentles and ' the Bun-crana Bun-crana to' Carndonagh evtensions. The railway is certain to have a most important im-portant effect in developing the Burtonport Bur-tonport district fisheries, which last year yielded' a return of over $150,000. With the impoved facilities for transport trans-port to English and Scotch markets this sum. is sure to be much augmented augment-ed in future. The first passenger train left Letterkenny at S:15 a. m. and arrived ar-rived at Burtonport about 11:30 a. m. It was made up of new roliing stock, engine, tender and carriages being then used for: the first time. This train was accompanied by Mr. R. S. Moore, general manager; Mr. John May, audit superintendent, and Mr. Fisher, locomotive loco-motive superintendent. Large numbers of passengers boarded the train at the intermediate stations. The later remark re-mark also applies to the return passenger pas-senger train, which left Burtonport at 3 o'clock and made an excellent run. Meath. Mrs. Catherine Boyle of Knockerk, Slane, died on March K. She was the widow of William Boyle, the mother of Patrick Boyle of Slane. the merchant, and a niece of the late Revs. James and Denis O'Brien, pastors of Slane. Bridget Duck, a Rathowen celebrity, has passed away at Loughlinstown, Rathowen. at the age of 104 years. Up to her last few days she was an enthusiastic en-thusiastic politician, and prided herself that she attended every election, as well as every public meeting in the district, within the past eighty years. She carried a big stick and flourished it for emphasis as she set forth her views. Her funeral was very large, as she was well liked in the locality. Clare. At Ennis recently Mrs. Mary Sexton of Ennis sued Matthew Kennedy of the same town, the coal merchant, for 500 damages for the death of her husband, hus-band, Patrick Sexton, a plasterer, who, as alleged, sustained fatal injuries while working on a building for Kennedy. Ken-nedy. Sexton was about 70 years of age. The jury found for the defendant. defend-ant. The death took place at the Ennis-tymon Ennis-tymon workhouse, on the 5th ult., of Ellen El-len Lacey, of Kilshanny, who had reached the age of 92 years. Cork. Two houses collapsed on George's quay, Cork, on March 11, and Mrs. Donovan, 60 years of age, and her son John were killed. The houses were occupied oc-cupied by about ninety people, mostly artisans and lahoring men and their families.' The following were Injured: Ellie Donovan, -a deep cut en the leg; John Donovan, severe scalp wound: Mary Donovan, contused arms and legs;-Kate McCarthy., several cuts on the legs: Ellen Murphy, scalp wound; Kate O'Brien, fractured toe and injured in-jured !er. Some of the landlords of the Midle-ton Midle-ton district have been reinstating their evicted tenants. On the 11th ult. the spectacle was witnessed of farmers ploughing the land of an evicted tenant ten-ant named Michael Hennessy, and also the extensive farm of. another evicted tenant named Henry Hall, both of whom have been restored to their holdings hold-ings as a. result of negotiations carried on by the Rev. ' J. Dennehy, curate at Ballymacoda. The property is at Bal-'lymacoda, Bal-'lymacoda, near Midleton. i . ,- Limerick. ' AikLimer,ck- on the 6th ult.,:. the eprljlg' aslzes for the county were opened. There were eleven cases for trial, only one being serious. Michael , and James Normile. cousins, were in-dicied in-dicied for the manslaughter of John Dillane, at Glin. They were acciuitted and discharged. |